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Audit Associate - Bury St Edmunds

Audit Associate

The Role

Ambition UK is recruiting on behalf of a Top 10 UK Accountancy firm for an Audit Associate in Bury St Edmunds.

This is an exciting opportunity for a part-qualified Audit Associate to join a growing audit team within a leading firm operating across the UK, Ireland, and the Nordics. The firm is recognised as one of the UK's largest SME practices and offers excellent exposure, career progression, and the chance to work with a diverse portfolio of clients.

Core Skills

As an experienced Audit Associate, you will demonstrate the ability and motivation to:

  • Begin to take ownership of your own portfolio of smaller assignments, with support from your manager
  • Support the Senior or Assistant Manager on larger and more complex assignments
  • Assist in delivering revenue and profitability targets
  • Begin to develop strong and enduring client relationships
  • Participate in local networking and business development events

Day-to-Day Duties

  • Heavily involved in the completion of audit fieldwork, including planned substantive and analytical audit procedures
  • Attendance on-site at client premises where necessary
  • Responsibility for the planning and completion of audit assignments, ensuring audit files contain appropriate and sufficient documentation
  • Preparation of statutory financial statements from client data
  • Identification of high-level risk areas and matters of concern, escalating these to the Partner or Manager using sound professional judgement
  • Planning the execution and finalisation of audit assignments for Partner or Manager review

Key Accountabilities



Technical Skills

  • Working knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP, and Auditing Standards
  • ACA / ACCA / AAT part qualified
  • Minimum of 2 years' experience within a UK practice audit environment
  • Experience auditing clients across a range of industries
  • Experience coaching and mentoring junior team members

Qualifications

  • ACA / ACCA / AAT - Part Qualified

Essential Experience

It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through a combination of professional study and hands-on experience gained within an accountancy practice.

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